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    AT HOME INTERIORS SALE ON VIEW AT ADAMS

    Sunday, February 23rd, 2025

     A 19th century console table (€1,000-€1,500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,800 AT HAMMER

    An 18th century marquetry inlaid longcase clock (€3,000-€5,000) is the most expensively estimated lot at the online interiors “At Home” auction now on view at Adams in Dublin. On offer are contents from the 18th century Springfield House, Celbridge and some lots from Buswell’s Hotel in Dublin.

    Among the latter are a pair of 19th century Famille Rose vases (€600-€1,000) and a pair of French boulle tortoiseshell inlaid and ebonised side cabinets (€1,500-€2,000).  Highlights from Springfield House include a large giltwood and gesso mirror (€2,000-€3,000), a 19th century console table with marble top (€1,000-€1,500), the Wales made longcase clock mentioned above and two 20th century recumbent bronze hounds.  There is a good selection of paintings including 19th century copies of art by Caravaggio, Corregio and Rembrandt.  Nearly 500 lots are to be sold and the auction gets underway at 11 am on February 25.

    Alfred de Breanski snr. (1852-1928) – Burnham Beeches near Windsor (€1,000-€2,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 500 AT HAMMER

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    A $250 MILLION ART COLLECTION AT CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK

    Friday, February 21st, 2025

    PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944) Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue, 21 ¼ x 21 in. (54 x 53.3 cm.) Painted in Paris in 1922. UPDATE: THIS MADE  $47.6 million

    Art by Mondrian, Magritte, Picasso, Giacometti, Warhol and other luminaries will come under the hammer at Christie’s in New York in May in a single owner evening sale. The Leonard and Louise Riggio collected works will be offered during Spring Marquee Week. The founder of Barnes and Noble died last year and his widow is downsizing from her Manhattan apartment on Park Avenue. With more than 30 works that represent an anthology of changing ideas, the works in the collection range from Surrealist musings to reflections on the influence of Classicism. Collectively, the artworks in the sale are expected to realise in excess of $250 million.  The collection will be toured to London, Hong Kong, Paris, Dubai and Los Angeles.

    The Mondrian is expected to be the top lot with an estimate that is expected to top the $51 million record for a work by the artist set in 2022. The selection also features two exemplary Surrealist paintings by René Magritte, including the first work from his most highly coveted series, L’empire des lumières, and Les droits de l’hommes completed just a year prior, in January 1948. Further highlights include a 1937 Pablo Picasso portrait of the renowned photographer Lee Miller and three Alberto Giacometti sculptures, including Femme de Venise I, conceived in 1956 and cast in 1958.

    Bonnie Brennan, Christie’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “It is an honour to be entrusted with this inimitable collection, a tribute to Leonard and Louise Riggio and their enduring legacy as patrons of the arts and passionate collectors. Each artwork included in this encyclopedic collection is exemplary, demonstrating the Riggios’ deep appreciation for human creativity. Christie’s strives to present exceptional art and objects, and this seminal collection, to be offered to a global audience this spring, will be a highlight of the year.” 

    René Magritte – L’empire des lumières. UPDATE: THIS MADE $35 million

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    RESTITUTED EGON SCHIELE ARTWORK AT CHRISTIE’S IN LONDON

    Thursday, February 20th, 2025

    Egon Schiele –  Knabe in Matrosenanzug (Boy in a Sailor Suit) 1914. UPDATE: THIS MADE £3,307,000

    Egon Schiele’s Boy in a Sailor Suit is among the highlights at Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale on March 5. Part of the collection of Fritz Grünbaum the work is being offered following a restitution agreement. The collection was lost when the Nazis annexed Austria in the late 1930s, and Mr. Grünbaum and his wife Lilly were sent to concentration camps where they perished. Grünbaum was a celebrated cabaret performer, writer, actor and outspoken opponent of Nazism, active in Vienna during the early twentieth century.  Over the course of his life, he purchased over 80 works by Egon Schiele spanning the full range of Schiele’s creative output. The estimate is £1 million – £1.5 million and proceeds will help the Grünbaum Fischer Foundation support underrepresented performing artists.

    For more than a quarter of a century, Christie’s has engaged with the legacy of Nazi-era and World War II art theft and dispossession. Losses during 1933–1945 to Europe’s collections, in particular those of Jewish collectors, through persecution, confiscation, and forced sales continue to resonate strongly in the art world today.

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    WHYTES IRISH ART SALE NOW ON VIEW IN DUBLIN AND ONLINE

    Thursday, February 20th, 2025

    Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958)- LAKE AND MOUNTAINS IN CONNEMARA, 1933-6. UPDATE: THIS MADE 270,000 AT HAMMER

    Viewing for Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art on March 3 gets underway in Dublin today. The top lot, of 129, is Paul Henry’s Lake and Mountains, Connemara which is estimated at €250,000-350,000. A trio of works by Paul Henry lead the sale. West of Ireland Landscape (€150,000-200,000) and Cottages Connemara (€80,000-120,000) also feature. There is art by Rose Barton, Nano Reid, Mary Swanzy, William Leech, Colin Middleton, a collection of drawings by William Orpen from the collection of Alan and Mary Hobart, work by Sean Scully, Donald Teskey, John Shinnors, Edward Delaney, Rowan Gillespie and many more.

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    AN IRISH BUREAU WITH CHURCHILL PROVENANCE

    Wednesday, February 19th, 2025

    Irish 19th Century mahogany Bureau stamped J.Kerr & Co., No. 68931. UPDATE: THIS MADE 9,500 AT HAMMER

    By family tradition this bureau was a gift from Sir Winston Churchill to General Sir Bindon Blood. It comes up as lot 576 at Fonsie Mealy’s sale in Castlecomer on March 5 and 6 with an estimate of €1,000-€1,500.

    Churchill served under Blood on the North West Frontier in 1897 and dedicated his first non-fiction book – The Story of the Malakand Field Force – to him. Churchill’s dedication reads: “Major-General Sir Bindon Blood, K.C.B., under whose command the operations therein recorded were carried out; by whose generalship they were brought to a successful conclusion; and to whose kindness the author is indebted for the most valuable and fascinating experience of his life”.

    Born in 1842 Blood attended The Royal School, Banagher, Co. Offaly, Queen’s College, Galway and the Addiscombe Military College before being commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1860. After service in Egypt, Afghanistan, India and South Africa he retired to London in 1907. He was made colonel commandant of the Royal Engineers in 1914 and worked to recruit soldiers for the First World War. He was aged 94 when he was made Chief Royal Engineer in 1936. He died in 1940.

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    BACON PORTRAIT OF MAN WITH GLASSES AT CHRISTIE’S IN LONDON

    Monday, February 17th, 2025

    Francis Bacon – Portrait of Man with Glasses III, 1963. UPDATE: THIS MADE £6,635,000

    Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Man with Glasses III from 1963 will be a highlight at Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on March 5. At auction for the first time it has been exhibited extensively worldwide featuring in 17 major international retrospectives and serving as the cover image for the catalogue of the Francis Bacon/Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2013. Most recently, it was displayed at London’s National Portrait Gallery as part of Francis Bacon: Human Presence, reaffirming its status as a cornerstone of Bacon’s oeuvre.

    The painting’s distorted yet captivating features reflect Bacon’s deep exploration of emotion, form, and the human condition: the bared teeth, rendered with thick impasto and delicate colour, embody his ambition to “paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset”. The estimate is £6 million – £9 million.

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    THE ENDURING ALLURE OF THE TITANIC AT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

    Sunday, February 16th, 2025

    Telegram requesting a list of Titanic survivors on the Olympic

    Titanic memorabilia or the early days of transatlantic aviation?  The choice is yours at Julien’s online and live in California on February 27.  Among a collection of Titanic relics are two telegrams from rescue ships Carpathia and the Olympic. One to Captain Herbert Haddock of the Olympic from the International Mercantile Marine Co. in New York requests a list of every survivor on the Carpathia, the other is from 2nd Class passenger Lucy Ridsdale to her sister in Milwaukee saying “safe”. There are serviceware items from Titanic and an envelope signed by all four surviving ships officers.

    Another lot of local interest is the Pan Am 1938 Air Trails magazine and cover artwork of the Boeing 314 Clipper Flying Boat. There are no B314’s left today and the only full scale replica in existence is at the Foynes Flying Boat and Maritime Museum in Co. Limerick.  This museum re-opens on March 15 after a winter break.

    Pan Am 1938 Air Trails magazine and cover artwork of the Boeing 314 Clipper Flying Boat.

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    AN IRISH REVOLUTIONARY’S APPROACH TO THE FEIS OF 1904

    Sunday, February 16th, 2025

    The book sale by Purcell Auctioneers in Birr on February 19 features The Exodus, a sacred cantata with words by activist, poet and playwright Thomas MacDonagh of Cloughjordan, a signatory of the 1916 Proclamation and music by B Palmieri.  Published in London in 1904 it was for the Feis Ceoil and is estimated at €220-€440.  The auction includes a selection of Irish and world interest books, antiquarian books, maps and ten lots of sporting memorabilia. UPDATE: THIS MADE 120 AT HAMMER

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    ARRESTING PORTRAIT BY TAMARA DE LEMPICA AT CHRISTIE’S IN LONDON

    Thursday, February 13th, 2025

    Tamara de Lempicka –  Portrait du Docteur Boucard UPDATE: THIS MADE £6,635,000

    This arresting 1928 Portrait of Dr. Boucard by Tamara de Lempica will be a highlight at Christie’s 20th/21st Century sale in London on March 5. From an important private collection the painting was commissioned from Lempicka by the sitter. Doctor Boucard was a prominent art collector and key patron of the artist. The work has not been seen on the market in the past forty years and is estimated at £5,000,000-8,000,000. An esteemed bacteriologist, Boucard revolutionised pharmaceutical science with the 1907 invention of Lactéol, a probiotic that laid the foundation for modern gut health research which is still in use today. Lempicka portrays Boucard as both an esteemed scientist and a man of distinction. His white trench coat, reminiscent of a laboratory coat, suggests a cinematic transformation. His upturned collar, pearl-accented tie, and sharply defined features convey both intellectual authority and cosmopolitan charm.

    The first major U.S. retrospective of her wor  at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. was co-curated by Furio Rinaldi and Gioia Mori. It opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on March 9. 

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    FIRST PERIOD BELLEEK FIGURE AT KILCOLGAN AUCTION

    Sunday, February 9th, 2025

    First Period Belleek Maid of Erin figure. UPDATE: THIS MADE 380 AT HAMMER

    At Kilcolgan in Co. Galway viewing is underway for Aidan Foley’s sale of around 1,000 lots on February 10 and 11. Belleek collectors will be taken by a first period Maid of Erin figure, though it does have a small chip. Art includes an oil on board by Tony O’Malley entitled Composition and a View of Roundstone by Ivan Sutton.  The jewellery section is headed by an 18 carat gold diamond solitaire. The auction kicks off online at 6 pm on both days.

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